The Secrets of the Invisible World laid open, or a General History of Apparitions, Sacred and Prophane, whether Angelical, Diabolical, or Departed Souls.**GHOSTS** by Anonymous [Defoe, Daniel] - 1770

London: Printed for the Author and Sold by D. Steele, near King Street, Little Tower-Hill., 1770 Reprint of the 1727 first edition, (this edition issued without plates.) Hard cover 12mo, (4 x 6 1/2 inches) bound in full tree calf, the spine with five raised bands, the compartments "diced" in gilt and the partial remnants of a red leather gilt title label, plain cream endpapers. Former owner's stamp to contents page and rear end paper. Author's name written in old ink to title page. **Collation: (2), 1-4 , i-v, 1-252 pp. [ A-I6 K-U6 X-Y6.] Complete, except for ffep.**CONDITION: Fair. End caps off. Front hinge quite loose. Boards very worn at corners, hinges and spine cracked. Lacking ffep. Pages generally clean, albeit lightly age-toned. Edges dusty. ** CONTENTS: I. Their various returns to this world, with sure rules to know if they are good or evil. II. An enquiry into the Scriptural doctrine of spirits. III. The different species of apparitions, with their real existence. IV. The nature of seeing ghosts before, and after death.V. The effects of fancy, vapours, dreams, hyppo, and the difference between real, or imaginary appearances. VI. A collection of the most authentic relations of apparitions particularly that surprizing one attested by the learned Dr. Scott. Likewise Mrs. Veal's appearance to Mrs. Bargrave, Sir George Villers, to the Duke of Buckingham, &c. &c. Also the notions of the heathens concerning apparitions.**English Author Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), "novelist, pamphleteer and spy," famously wrote Robinson Crusoe. He used many pen-names, usually to avoid prosecution,covering various sub"ject matters from politics to this, the supernatural... This volume was cited in the Victorian periodical Notes and Queries,"Dec. 12th 1863, as being one of a number of supernatural books "sufficiently curious to particularize". OCLC 27956395 ESTC N22423.. Hard Cover. Fair.